Top 100 Mccormack Quotes
#1. Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.
Ron Livingston
#2. Nelson McCormack on 'Killing Kennedy' was really terrific because I wrote the script, and he had some terrific ideas. We went over the script together, and I was with him on set. So it was a collaborative effort.
Kelly Masterson
#3. I always get a little uppity when I hear the phrase 'TV actor.' It's like saying you're a magazine reporter. I was in the theater for ten years before I ever had a TV audition.
Eric McCormack
#4. Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.
Mark McCormack
#5. I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.
Mary McCormack
#6. Occasionally I go shopping for clothes, but I find the whole thing a real chore.
Catherine McCormack
#7. you have to have faith, Dad, that's what we Mayo people do, we journey in hope, true believers
Mike McCormack
#8. I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.
John McCormack
#9. No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.
Una McCormack
#10. I love playing anyone that does stuff that I don't do. The fun of playing an assassin is that I've never killed anybody. The fun of playing a brilliant musician is that I don't actually play any instruments.
Eric McCormack
#11. Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.
Catherine McCormack
#13. That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're supposed to do - your body, your brain knows, so there's freedom. There's not fear, there's not nerves.
Eric McCormack
#14. As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.
Eric McCormack
#15. When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part.
Eric McCormack
#16. I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.
Eric McCormack
#17. I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I died, that the world might be an OK place without my Hamlet, in fact.
Eric McCormack
#19. Being a laborer with one hand is about as useful as being a sperm donor with one nut.
Devon McCormack
#20. Be brave. Be bold. Don't wait for change. Seize your own life and make it.
Una McCormack
#21. Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.
Mark McCormack
#22. Often, particularly with voices, you're hearing horrible things, demon voices, and voices telling them that they're not worth it or that they're going to kill somebody. In those moments, they're overcoming things.
Eric McCormack
#23. I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources.
John William McCormack
#24. I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.'
Eric McCormack
#25. I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.
Mary McCormack
#27. You're going to go after that dream for both of us. And then, one day when it all comes true, I want you to look back and remember me as the open door--not the cage.
Mercy Brown
#28. If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.
Mark McCormack
#29. telling us that the death has occurred
in the family home
or after a long illness
or after a short illness
or suddenly
or in England
or peacefully at their home in
all the innumerable ways and places in which anyone can die
Mike McCormack
#30. I have accomplished a lot, but it didn't happen overnight for me. I was 35 when I got the show, and had been working professionally for 15 years. It would be a lot weirder if I were in my early 20s and stumbled into it.
Eric McCormack
#31. All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.
Mark McCormack
#32. I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.
Mary McCormack
#33. There are five top superstars in golf, 20 great stars, and 30 good ones. The rest should go and get jobs.
Mark McCormack
#34. If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.
Mark McCormack
#35. To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.
Mark McCormack
#37. Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.
Mark McCormack
#38. There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.
Mary McCormack
#39. Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.
Eric McCormack
#40. If the day ever comes that it (Deep Space Nine) isn't safe for kids to run around this station we all need to pack up and go home.
Una McCormack
#42. what I found difficult was the mixture of finger pointing and sanctimony in the whole piece, your righteous standpoint over the material, I wasn't so sure about that
Mike McCormack
#43. I like playing a character every day. I like having something to go back to. I always enjoyed that with 'Will & Grace.' I like the camaraderie. I like having a crew that I know and I can work with every day.
Eric McCormack
#44. I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then something from Nina Simone, Nick Drake or Bob Dylan.
Catherine McCormack
#45. If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood.
Eric McCormack
#47. Tell me what this means," Dax said. "I'm a busy woman with a ship to run and a crisis to handle and I've surrounded myself with smart, dedicated people for the sole purpose of interpreting unintelligible squiggles for me.
Una McCormack
#48. I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important.
Eric McCormack
#49. One doesn't commit evil actions in the belief that one is acting wrongly. What allows one to commit such acts is the belief that it will contribute to a greater good.
Una McCormack
#50. It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.
Catherine McCormack
#51. Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, 'Hey, come see my play,' he'd say, 'Sure.' He'd see one, 'Oh, good play' - you know, very typical dad reaction.
Eric McCormack
#52. Midwest Radio would like to extend their sympathies to the families and loved ones of the dead
Mike McCormack
#54. I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.
Eric McCormack
#56. I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.
John McCormack
#57. I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.
Eric McCormack
#58. Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.
Eric McCormack
#59. I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.
Catherine McCormack
#60. I am convinced that most companies don't maximize their barter possibilities. Instead of aggressively reducing costs by trading their services with those of their suppliers, they seem content to pay top dollar for everything.
Mark McCormack
#61. I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.
Mary McCormack
#62. Character is destiny. For the cronic do-gooder, the happy-go-lucky sociopath, the dysfunctional family, under the gun everyone diverts to who they are. We may hunger to map out a new course, but for most of us, the lines have been drawn since we were 5.
Mary McCormack
#63. The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause for concern: the more self-satisfied you are with your accomplishments, your past achievements, your 'right moves', the less you should be.
Mark McCormack
#64. If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?
Mary McCormack
#65. Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.
Eric McCormack
#66. The Prime Directive is a nice ideal, but have you noticed it never works in practice?
Una McCormack
#67. My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.
Eric McCormack
#69. I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays.
Eric McCormack
#70. The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.
Catherine McCormack
#71. I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.
Catherine McCormack
#72. They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor.
John William McCormack
#73. In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?
Catherine McCormack
#74. But I was ready for it and I knew I could do it. I've just turned 40, I have a son and I feel more settled and driven than ever. I think my 40s will be my most prolific time. It's a very rare life you get to lead as a sitcom guy.
Eric McCormack
#75. Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.
Mark McCormack
#77. Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from ... people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before ... it never ends in terms of story opportunities.
Mary McCormack
#78. Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.
Catherine McCormack
#79. I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.
Catherine McCormack
#80. Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.
Mary McCormack
#81. If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.
Mark McCormack
#82. Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.
Mark McCormack
#83. The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.
Catherine McCormack
#84. Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process.
Catherine McCormack
#85. I've told you before I'm not guilty of anything; I'm just guilty, that's all.
Mike McCormack
#86. We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it.
John William McCormack
#87. In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity ... I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.
Mark McCormack
#88. My most romantic job: I was a manager at Baskin-Robbins.
Eric McCormack
#89. I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.
Catherine McCormack
#90. Fact One: Races are won or lost in key moments. Fact Two: Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering.
Chris McCormack
#92. I think we all realize that anyone can - and has - gotten AIDS. So there's obviously still a lot to be done.
Eric McCormack
#93. I think it's good for moms to work. I have three daughters, so I like them to see me working and doing something I'm passionate about.
Mary McCormack
#94. Life changed you, and the people you thought you could not stand suddenly made sense to you.
Una McCormack
#95. Readers tend to tolerate such "accidents" ... when they get the characters into trouble but they're less accepting when the author uses them to rescue people. The "deus ex machina" ... in one stroke it renders meaningless all the efforts of the cast.
Thomas McCormack
#96. If we know there is enough money in there for nine or ten months, we won't worry too much. They can come back and get more-not all they want, but a large piece of it. So you always have the supplemental as a safety valve.
John William McCormack
#97. There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.
Eric McCormack
#98. We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny.
Eric McCormack
#99. All monsters are queers. Who is able to bring the dead back to life? God and the Devil. The Devil makes dead men into monsters: immortal, immoral - and queer.
Derek McCormack
#100. If I didn't work on the assumption that people were mostly telling me the truth, I think I'd go mad ... And I'd rather be mistaken about others than mistrustful of them.
Una McCormack
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